Restoration efforts carried on well into Sunday morning after almost all cities and towns across Pakistan plunged into darkness late Saturday night following a major technical fault that caused the frequency in the entire distribution system to drop from 50 to 0.
Tweeting from the ministry's official Twitter handle, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Energy said that according to initial reports, the Guddu power plant developed a fault at 11:41 pm on Saturday night.
While the first few minutes after the blackout were rather confusing as to the reason behind the nationwide crackdown, many took to Twitter and shared their theories about the same. We bring you the best memes and tweets we came across.
Behind the scenes at WAPDA for this blackout to happen pic.twitter.com/m7QByBfqbE
— Hassan (@mianhassani) January 9, 2021
As always, the first thought by many was that a war has broken out between the two countries.
Mein ne flashlight utha li hai https://t.co/lfS5JIChVn
— Shumail (@Shumyl) January 9, 2021
iska apna "ae mard e mujahid jaag zara" chal rha hota hey
— Maliking (@DesiBurger23) January 9, 2021
Dear Pakistanis sleep tight. Zaid Hamid is awake.
— S. 🇵🇰 (@psymeK) January 9, 2021
Many pondered over the possibilities:
soon inshallah pic.twitter.com/jp8tndDrS1
— haider (@ZuHaider) January 9, 2021
Me surviving Ghazwa e Hind only to find out I'm on the wrong side of the borderpic.twitter.com/lWYU7z8pCb
— pakiman (@DaUnitedGuy) January 9, 2021
Me doing my job as Deepika Padukone’s slave post war pic.twitter.com/z9mXQTRu8Z
— 😈 (@lgbtrashidun) January 9, 2021
Me coming across my Indian twitter mutuals on the battlefield pic.twitter.com/GlFl7It5Ei
— ازمر (@khannazmar) January 9, 2021
And of course, The Simpsons predicted it as well:
Now checking to see if the Simpsons predicted this too.
— Osman Khalid Butt (@aClockworkObi) January 9, 2021
It’s crazy, the Simpsons predicted this as well! pic.twitter.com/urfqUKg8dM
— Arhum (@arhuml92) January 9, 2021
We have to agree. Twitter really has been there through thick and thin:
Pakistani Twitter in every scary situation pic.twitter.com/cDmuqjPglC
— Adnan (@MrBubbyy) January 9, 2021
You can't beat paki Twitter #blackout pic.twitter.com/7ud9VyZKHQ
— Noo (@kha_nobya) January 9, 2021
me tweeting random shit wanting to score a viral tweet while the whole country is going through a blackout pic.twitter.com/ch9rT7JiJP
— a (@burtmackliinFBI) January 9, 2021
Blackout se ye aj kafi variety wali makhlooq bahir aa gai hai TL pe waah
— S. 🇵🇰 (@psymeK) January 9, 2021
how | /
— Nathan Allebach (@nathanallebach) January 9, 2021
bad | ___/
the | /
world | ___/
gets |/________________
the quality of memes
*qayamat comes*
— zo (@chefzk) January 9, 2021
pakis on twt making memes: pic.twitter.com/Lf1dnMfMB9
Of missed opportunities:
If this is the purge i had always planned to go and rob an import grocery store but my dad locked our gate so this is a missed opportunity
— Sabah Malik (@sabahbanomalik) January 9, 2021
bro this u @undertaker?
— Umar Ahmed (@TheUmarAhmed) January 9, 2021
Ngl, same.
National Anthem. https://t.co/PWW8qEv9qV
— 🌹 (@ranaayyyyy) January 9, 2021
This cracked us up!
Electricity providers tonight pic.twitter.com/M0fm5r9CNa
— Mashriki Mashkro (@commiedi) January 9, 2021
In a nationwide blackout, the person with a charged powerbank is king.
— Fasi Zaka (@fasi_zaka) January 9, 2021
THE FAULT IN OUR TAARS
— Alishba (@Ishbahaha) January 9, 2021
Aurat March's silence on national power outage is telling!
— Bae Faiz (@antifatwa) January 9, 2021
And for people who never got to know what transpired:
people who slept early yesterday waking up with so many memes on blackout#blackout pic.twitter.com/Wwdn1trHvA
— Mahnoor (@MahwithoutNoor) January 10, 2021
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